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Simeran Maxwell
Simeran Maxwell is associate curator, Australian Art at the National Gallery of Australia where she has worked in various curatorial roles since 2007. She has a particular interest in international and Australian fashion, textiles, theatre arts and design. She was the curator of 1960s: International Fashion from the Collection (2023), Good Taste: French Evening Wear, 1910s–1930s (2018), A Century of Quilts (2024) and Australian Fashion Innovators (2024–25); co-curator of Matisse & Picasso (2019–20) and Counterculture (2018); the coordinating curator for Monet: Impression Sunrise (2019) and Cartier: The Exhibition (2018) and a contributing curator to Toulouse-Lautrec: Paris and the Moulin Rouge (2012–13), Ballets Russes: The Art of Costume (2010) and Degas: Master of French Art (2008–09). Her current curatorial projects include Australian and First Nations contemporary fashion, historical quilts and queer artist, designer and jeweller Peter Tully.
Contact: National Gallery, Parkes Place East, GPO Box 1150, Kamberri/Canberra ACT 2601, Parkes ACT 2600, Australia.